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The Amityville Horror
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The Amityville Horror

2005 · R · 1h 30m

What happened over the next 28 days has never been explained.

George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Dutch colonial mansion nestled in the sleepy coastal town of Amityville, Long Island. However, their dream home is concealing a horrific past and soon each member of the Lutz family is plagued with increasingly strange and violent visions and impulses.

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Release

In theaters
April 15, 2005

Curator Score

Based on 1 curator rating · How we score

Carried by atmosphere.

Jump scares

The Amityville Horror has 17 jump scares. Compare counts

Age suitability

The Amityville Horror is rated R. Watch Darkly does not assign its own age rating. It scored 6.0/10 for fear and 5.0/10 for gore, and carries 5 content warnings: child endangerment, domestic violence, pet death, self harm, and torture.

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6.8Overall
Fear6.0
Gore5.0
Atmosphere7.9

Genres

horrorthriller

Tags

Subgenre

familypossessionhaunted-housesupernatural

Tone

dreadpsychological

Setting

period-piecesuburban

Production

based-on-true-events

Content Warnings

child-endangermentself-harmdomestic-violencepet-deathtorture
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Details

Budget$19M
Box office$107.5M

Directed by

Andrew Douglas

Cinematography

Peter Lyons Collister

Starring

Ryan Reynolds as George Lutz · Melissa George as Kathy Lutz · Jesse James as Billy Lutz · Jimmy Bennett as Michael Lutz · Chloë Grace Moretz as Chelsea Lutz · Rachel Nichols as Lisa · Philip Baker Hall as Father Callaway · Isabel Conner as Jodie Defeo

Production

Dimension Films, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Platinum Dunes, Radar Pictures

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